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Original article: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-sense/200911/handwriting-and-fine-motor-skills-new-insights-autism
Over the last couple of years, I've been privileged to interview several researchers who work at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore. I've written about their...

FULL TEXT http://www.waqwaq.info/atanasiu/studies/atanasiu2004hwa.pdf
Surveys and projects in handwriting analysis
State of the art in handwriting analysis software
Proposals for research in handwriting analysis
Contemporary topics, actors and resources in graphonomics
Vlad Atanasiu
MIT...

Video and message: http://www.necn.com/04/26/10/In-this-new-age-are-we-losing-the-art-of/landing_scitech.html?blockID=223330&feedID=4213
(NECN/CNN) - In the age of computers, video games and text messaging, there is a general consensus that we are losing the art of penmanship.
Reporter Susan...

Movement side effects due to antipsychotic drugs can be measured using handwriting movement analysis. Handwriting tests were in use since Haase & Janssen (1965). NeuroScript developed an automated method to evaluate handwriting movements. Results demonstrate that the extrapyramidal side effects of...

FULL TEXT: http://www.aan.com/go/education/curricula/family/chapter8/section1
Chapter 8 - Gait and Movement Disorders
William G. Ondo, MD
Rosabel Young, MD
DEFINITION
The term "movement disorder" refers to the group of central nervous system diseases in which the control of movement is...

FULL TEXT AND PICTURES: http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=2892
The Telltale Hand: How Writing Reveals the Damaged Brain
By Marc J. Seifer
About Marc J. Seifer
October 01, 2002
Signing your name or scribbling a grocery list may seem a simple, mundane activity. In fact, it is...

Lessons in Calligraphy and Penmanship http://www.iampeth.com/lessons.php
IAMPETH Lessons page. A wealth of material for learning calligraphy and penmanship. Cursive handwriting, Ornamental Penmanship, Copperplate, Spencerian script - we have lessons.
The materials may not be reproduced...

Handwriting Disasters – Part 5 of an Interview with Kate Gladstone
“You may not be able to read a doctor's handwriting and prescription, but you'll notice his bills are neatly typewritten.” – Earl Wilson
Today is the final installment of my interview with Kate Gladstone, the Handwriting...

Subtle signs can appear before the characteristic neurological features, including changes in behaviour, deterioration of school work, or an inability to carry out activities that need good hand-eye coordination. Handwriting might deteriorate and micrographia—as in Parkinson’s disease—could develop...